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RE: REVIEW: Fournier HTA-1 Other

Posted by jaydacus on December 18, 2011 at 22:50:51

In Reply to: REVIEW: Fournier HTA-1 Other posted by Adriel on December 18, 2011 at 13:40:46:

I can't even imagine what kind of source you were using to get such awful sound out of this headphone amp. I can tell you that the DAC that comes built into the DAC2 connected to a properly configured PC sounds smooth, clean, and very detailed. I also was surprised to hear you say that it did not have much of a tube sound. To me it has so much of a tube sound that its hard to believe that it has solid state output. It sounds great with the supplied JJ tubes. Someday I might try something else, but I could just as easily see myself being happy with the stock tubes for the next 10 years.

The tube sockets are high quality ceramic and after having removed and reinstalled the tubes several times I have to believe that only the inexperienced would find the tubes difficult to insert. The tubes might have been a tiny bit harder to insert than in an amp where the sockets are on the surface, but I can't imagine actually bending the pins.

I do agree with you for the most part regarding the aesthetics. I like the simple clean design of the case and I don't even mind the color. What I hated was the lighting. The blue lights under the tubes were obviously intended for people that had never seen tubes before and the ridiculously bright blue pilot light was a real deal breaker. I decided to make my Fournier the way I said it should have been in my review. I removed the blue LEDs from under the tube sockets which required unsoldering and resoldering them. Then I traded out the blinding blue light for a much dimmer amber light.

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